someone recommended me this book when i started going off on "surface reading" and yes it is making some very similar points! but i don't touch the ocean really at all, i only think about it because when people go underground they say "wow this feels like the bottom of the ocean." (or the moon)

also what a funny cover for the book -- a plant growing out of a drain? amazing. (of course, no one really ever buys the hard copies of these handbooks -- there will be a digital file floating around soon enough i presume)

my chapter is "Affect and Ideology in Populist Environmentalism: The Case of Pipeline Opposition Movements." it's a little bit of extra theorizing between Spinozist and Marxist theories of ideology -- and how they help find new pathways beyond some knots in "populism studies".

have you read Camille Robcis' book Disalienation? feel like it was a nice practical rescuscitation of the political ambition that flows from Tosquelles/Saint-Alban/the institutional more generally

i do wonder what is meant by "a psychiatry that existed only in terms of its integration with human geography" -- surely there is more there in human geography than the built environment -- were there interdisciplinary integrations too...?

at the time, this is a fairly important intervention -- Masson, the article later describes, also led the charge against the use of straitjackets on patients. but without knowing more, it also seems to presage stuff like eco-psychiatry, forest care, etc that can get a bit too naturalistic for me.

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is it good?